Volume 8: Health Insurance, Part IVWhile the ACA has problems – serious ones – it is a fact that in the seven years since it has passed, the Republican Party has not come up w
Still no exchange death spiralBut "death spiral" is not just a couple random words. Like most things in the English language, these words actually mean somethin
On RussiaWell, maybe this presidency is more like "The Americans" than reality TV. I don't want to get too newsy at a serious publication like...
The return of employer-sponsored insurance?It's actually more difficult than you'd think to figure out how many people have health insurance. Government programs publish data,
Volume 7: Bayesian AnalysisWhy You Can Never Be Sure of Anything “Bet you $50 it hasn't.” – xkcd #1132 People don’t like thinking probabilistically. They crave...
Concerning tax plans of the phenomenal varietyI think it's of note that Trump's assurance that his "phenomenal" tax plan is almost ready caused markets to jump on the e
Even more technical detail about Social SecuritySo I've been meaning to give an update on Social Security since writing Volume 1, but hadn't gotten around to it. But I found a very...